Continuations and MS CLR

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Sun Aug 20 15:05:55 EDT 2000


> > 2) Second, they add a module for creating continuations.
> > Continuations are an idea most commonly seen in Scheme and ML [...]
> > Continuations allow storing the state of a running function and
> > resuming its execution later; a stackless bytecode interpreter is
> > required to make it possible to implement them at all. 

That should be reworded to "without a stackless bytecode interpreter,
implementing them is so horribly inefficient that the very contemplation
of it leads to howls of despair and eternal torment."

:)




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